dmrgscf — DMRG and DMRG-SCF/CASSCF

The dmrgscf module interfaces PySCF with external DMRG solvers, such as Block, StackBlock and CheMPS2. See also mcscf.

To perform a DMRG CASSCF calculation, first modify pyscf/dmrgscf/settings.py and set the correct path for the DMRG solver, and then run e.g.,

from pyscf import gto
from pyscf import scf
from pyscf import mcscf
from pyscf import dmrgscf

import os
from pyscf.dmrgscf import settings
if 'SLURMD_NODENAME' in os.environ:  # slurm system
    settings.MPIPREFIX = 'srun'
elif 'PBS_NODEFILE' in os.environ:   # PBS system
    settings.MPIPREFIX = 'mpirun'
else:  # MPI on single node
    settings.MPIPREFIX = 'mpirun -np 4'

b = 1.2
mol = gto.M(
    verbose = 4,
    atom = 'N 0 0 0; N 0 0 %f'%b,
    basis = 'cc-pvdz',
    symmetry = True,
)
mf = scf.RHF(mol)
mf.kernel()

mc = dmrgscf.DMRGSCF(mf, 8, 8)
mc.state_average_([0.5, 0.5])
mc.kernel()
print(mc.e_tot)

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